Gheorghe Sion

After spending two years (1837-1839) at Saint Sava College in Bucharest, the capital of Wallachia, he returned to his native Moldavia.

He returned to Iași in 1849, working as bureau chief at the Department of Church Property and Public Education.

[1] Subsequently, around the time of the Union of the Principalities, Sion moved to Bucharest, where his posts included membership in the Appeals Court and, from 1866, head of the Tobacco Monopoly Company.

[2] In Bucharest, he founded Revista Carpaților in 1860 and, together with V. A. Urechia, published Transacțiuni literare și științifice starting in 1872.

His volumes included poetry (Ciasurile de mulțămire a lui Gheorghe Sion, 1844; Din poeziile lui Gheorghe Sion, 1857), plays (Influința morală, 1869; La Plevna!, 1878; Dramatice, 1879; Sărutarea, 1888), a travel book (Suvenire de călătoria în Basarabia meridională, 1857), and memoirs (Suvenire contimpurane, 1888).